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AUDIT ROW #313 · CHAPMAN'S FIGURE IN TWO FORMS · DELTA CANDIDATE BANKED
The wheat story's modern end is counted (50 farms, 2,853 acres, 186,557 bushels in 2012); its nineteenth-century end stands in the banked set in two conflicting forms, and this section prints both and flags the conflict rather than silently choosing. Farms & Agriculture prints Chapman's county wheat figure as "about 300,000 bushels"; Food & Drink, citing the same Chapman, prints "some 200,000 bushels." What the arc itself shows, on either telling, is the fall the checklist asks to date: from a county wheat crop in the hundreds of thousands of bushels in Chapman's era — wheat was then a first-rank cash grain on this ground — to 186,557 bushels on fifty farms in 2012, a specialty acreage inside a corn-and-soy county.
Principal sources: USDA Census of Agriculture 2012, Table 1 (the 2012 wheat figures); Farms & Agriculture and Food & Drink (the two Chapman tellings, "about 300,000" against "some 200,000 bushels"), flagged as a delta candidate; settler named — Chapman (1880) re-read at the page; annual USDA county estimates, for the arc's middle course.